July 31th, 2025
68,606 people evacuated from danger to date
65 people evacuated from danger this week
41 trips into deoccupied and frontline territories this week
While at a distance the war in Ukraine seems to be at a standstill, volunteers on the ground are witnessing developments that are moving in an alarming direction. Our evacuation teams have had to adjust their routes again this week. Last week, the town of Bilyts’ke became a drone kill zone. Thanks to your support, evacuations were able to continue until the very last possible day. Our prayers go out to those residents who made the decision to stay behind. Unless the situation changes, we expect similar worsening conditions to affect the towns of Dobropillya and Kostyantynivka in the coming weeks.
Stories
LoveUA Perseveres
Recently, as the LoveUA team was sorting packages for their trip East, the freight elevator in their warehouse broke and dropped down from the second floor. No one was injured, but the team had to carry all the aid packages down to the van by hand. In the middle of it all, an air raid alert began, and the team was forced to hurry. Eventually, the volunteers managed to load the vehicle. Getting a late start on their trip, the team returned home shortly before midnight.
When they finally got home, hoping to get a few hours of rest, they were instead kept awake by the Russian shelling of Dnipro. Volunteers spent the entire night sheltering. Then, after only 30 minutes of sleep, they were back on the road.
In five villages, LoveUA distributed 273 hygiene packages and diapers, and 273 food packages. The residents of the villages have been suffering from frequent shelling. In fact, one of them had been hit the night before the team arrived. Despite the risks, local residents had been eagerly awaiting the team, as humanitarian aid has become increasingly scarce. At the time of the visit, there were no hygiene supplies available to the villagers at all.
Seedlings Grow in Frontline Regions
Earlier this year we completed our annual agricultural assistance project, which delivered seeds and seedlings to more than 23,000 people across Ukrainian regions close to the frontline. Despite the horrors of the war, the seeds and seedlings have grown. We have received heartfelt notes of gratitude from the recipients of this aid in the Donbas and in the Kharkiv Region.
Evacuating Children from Dobropillya
Ihor’s report for Dobra sprava:
This week, one evacuation from Dobropillya was very memorable because of a five-year-old boy named Yevhen (Zhenya) who was a real delight. We evacuated him with his two older sisters, aged 17 and 14, and younger brother Illya, aged two, along with their parents to the Kirovohrad Region. Their father had fought in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and returned home wounded just a week before evacuation — a miracle for the family.
Little Yevhen met me with great interest, constantly stayed nearby, talked and asked many questions. He made my day, even though it was very long and tense. The road to the Kirovohrad Region is long and difficult, but we had to get Yevhen and his family to safety as quickly as possible. While in Dobropillya, I was constantly tense, watching the sky for drones and listening for threats, but everything turned out well.
Only one thing made little Yevhen cry upon arrival — his little puppy wasn't in the bus. His older sisters had told him the puppy would come too, hoping he'd forget about the dog during the journey. But he didn't forget... and the puppy remained in Dobropillya….
Help in Occupied Territories
86 people received help in three occupied towns.
Team Summaries
Alina’s Team – Dobra sprava (Good Deeds)
13 trips, evacuating 61 people including 23 children.
Trips this week concentrated on the besieged town of Dobropillya, with additional evacuations from Druzhkivka, Kostyantynivka, and Lyman.
Bilyts’ke is no longer accessible for evacuation vehicles due to drone proliferation.
Inna’s Team – Krok z nadiyeyu (Step with Hope)
Help reached 7,800 people in 39 locations.
6600 people received bread.
12 frontline and deoccupied locations visited.
Kherson operations:
Disinfected 8 large basements, increasingly important shelters due to escalating bombing of Kherson.
6 targeted aid missions, mostly focusing on delivering aid to children.
Evacuated 1 person from Dobropillya.
Volunteers continue to hold classes and camps for children in besieged Druzhkivka.
Delivered aid to 20 families in Shevchenkove, near Kup’yans’k.
Held 8 meetings and classes for teenagers in the Kharkiv Region.
Angelia Charitable Fund
En route from Munich, bringing 1,100 kg of used clothes, medical supplies, adult diapers, and bedding, to be delivered to Kherson.
Oleksandr D’s Volunteer Networks
Oleksandr S. (Boyarka): Distributed 450 kg of clothing and footwear to underprivileged groups in the Kyiv Region and 600 kg in the Chernihiv Region. Distributed 2.4 tons of clothing and food to disabled people and people with special needs in Seredyna-Buda, Sumy Region, 200 kg of shoes, clothes, food and household appliances for children in other parts of the Sumy Region, and 1 ton of food kits to vulnerable groups in Boyarka. Helped an internally displaced (IDP) family from the Donetsk Region. They have 2 children, 1 of whom is sick and in the hospital. Aid included a baby stroller, baby hygiene products, and a food kit.
Vladyslav K. (Mykolaiv): delivered 56 tons of drinking water to Mykolaiv and Kherson.
Sandra S. (Odesa): kitchen fed about 520 people, including portions delivered to organizations in other parts of the city. Because of the continuing heatwave, the team is distributing extra drinking water and a hibiscus beverage.
Yuri S. (Vinnytsia): twice delivered food aid to the Safe Space Vinnytsia night shelter for the homeless. 14 people were staying at the shelter combined over the 2 nights. Delivered 10 kg of berries and diapers to the Harmony rehabilitation center for distribution to 10 people with disabilities.
Serhiy A. (Kharkiv): distributed 3.8 tons of food aid to the blind population in Sumy, Kharkiv, Marhanets’, Zaporizhzhia, Pavlohrad, Dnipro, Kamianske, Uman, Khmelnytskyi, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Shepetivka, Polonne, Bar, Kryvyi Rih, Odesa, and Kramatorsk.
Vitaliy Z. (Kharkiv): delivered 4 tons of humanitarian kits (food, clothes, medicine, and animal feed) to the village of Zelenyi Hai, near Lyman. The situation here is so deadly that people can’t leave their homes and many die in their front yards. Distributed almost 500 loaves of “Victory” bread in the deoccupied village of Vil’khuvatka in the Balakliya community. Provided more than 20 municipal workers in the village of Volokhov Yar, Izium District, with work uniforms. Completed another well in Shabelkivka, Kramatorsk community, where people were without water for 5 years! Performed a very dangerous evacuation of 3 people – mother, son, and son’s wife – from the Chervone area of Kostyantynivka, under constant threat of drones. The evacuees’ house burned down later the same day after a direct hit.
WeCare Centers (Lviv): received 12.5 tons of baby food from abroad at the warehouse in Boryslav.
Oleksandr D. (Lutsk): drove 7 visually impaired and blind people to a recreation and treatment camp in Kovel’, Volyn Region, and then later back to Lutsk. Received a 1 ton donation of cucumbers and zucchini from a farmer and delivered these to several hospitals in Lutsk, where wounded soldiers are being treated, the Ark church, which prepares food for military and IDPs, and to Oleksandr Z. 's team.
Oksana K. (Lutsk): report for 2 weeks. Provided food, treats and gifts to 100 children at a summer camp for each of the 2 weeks. Received instant soups from Poland, via Oleksandr D.’s team. Distributed 49 kg of pasta, 206 kg of clothing, shoes, blankets, bedspreads, toys, pillows, and 116 kg of adult diapers and urological pads to 58 visitors at the team’s Lutsk humanitarian distribution point.
Oleksandr Z. (Lutsk): provided therapeutic interventions and aid to IDP children and families, children with disabilities, children from military families, orphans, amputees, and military veterans – held 2 art therapy sessions for a total of 56 children. Visited a puppet theater with 26 children. Distributed bread and other food to 70 orphaned students from the Sumy, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions and to 380 other people living in IDP assistance centers. In addition, the team has started helping paralyzed IDPs in the village of Ostrozhets’ (Rivne Region) with groceries. Held a development and sports camp for veterans and children. The camp was also attended by 60 children of veterans and military personnel. Provided glasses for 60 adults and children. Conducted 92 medical and preventive procedures for the recovery of 38 IDP children with disabilities from the Kherson Region. Helped 55 children with prophylactic health procedures, physiotherapy, hydrotherapy, and gym classes. Through partners, assisted in the manufacture of prostheses and rehabilitation for 16 people.
Nets protect traffic against drone attack.
Karina’s Team – My ryatuyemo Ukrayinu (We Save Ukraine)
113 people in the shelter.
Tetiana’s Team – Dopomoha poruch (Help Is Near)
Distributed 150 aid packages to recent internally displaced refugees in Smila.
Distributed 200 aid packages with food and 100 packages with hygiene products in Shevchenkove, near Kup’yans’k, Kharkiv Region.
Timur’s Team – Komanda Teymura Alyeva (Timur Alyev’s Team)
Delivered 370 aid packages to the residents of Cherkas'ki Tyshky village.
Special home deliveries to 35 families with infants and 18 disabled elderly in Kharkiv.
Pavel and Olena’s Teams – Dotyk sertsya (Touch of Heart) & Svitanok mriy (Dawn of Dreams)
185 food packages distributed in Myrne and Tavriiske.
200 hygienic packages brought to Pravdyne.
Pomahaem Foundation (We Help Foundation)
24 tons of water delivered to Nikopol’.
281 family packages delivered to 13 villages near Synel’nykove, Dnipropetrovsk Region.
Provided assistance to IDP shelters 1+1, housing 135 people.
Marina’s Team – Daruy dobrо Ukrayina (Give Good Ukraine)
150 food and hygiene packages distributed to internally displaced people in Pytikhatki.
Dina’s Team — Vilʹni lyudy, vilʹna krayina (Free People, Free Country)
Distributed 615 packages of food and hygiene products in Kremenchuk, Poltava, Kanev, and Dnipro.
Mailed 75 packages from Dnipro to small towns.
Served 1,650 meals in the soup kitchen in Kharkiv.
Delivered 200 packages to Kolomak and Koviahy in the Kharkiv Region.
Bohdan’s Team — Vse robymo sami (We Do Everything Ourselves)
42 families in Zhytomyr received food and hygiene kits.
Alena’s Team – Diva (Virgo)
Helped 39 wounded in the hospital.
445 people received bread at Odesa distribution points.
Anastasia’s Team – LoveUA
Distributed 273 hygiene packages of aid and 273 food packages to 5 villages in the Donetsk Region.
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